Null
English
Proper noun
Null (plural Nulls)
- A surname.
German
Etymology
Since late 16th c. From earlier form Nulla (c. 1500), from Italian nulla, from Latin nūlla, feminine of nūllus (“no one”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *né, *óynos and *-lós.
Pronunciation
Noun
Null f (genitive Null, plural Nullen)
- (mathematics) zero (a numeral; numeric symbol of zero)
- Synonym: Zero
- Die Null und der Großbuchstabe „O“ sind sich im Schriftbild sehr ähnlich. ― Zero and the capital letter "O" are very similar in typeface.
- Er malte eine große Null auf das Papier. ― He painted a big zero in the sheet of paper.
- Die Zahl Hundert wird mit zwei Nullen geschrieben. ― The number one hundred is written with two zeros.
- (derogatory) failure, loser
- Synonyms: Nichtskönner, Versager
- In Mathematik ist er eine totale Null. ― He is a total failure in mathematics.
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Null | die | Nullen |
| genitive | einer | der | Null | der | Nullen |
| dative | einer | der | Null | den | Nullen |
| accusative | eine | die | Null | die | Nullen |
Hypernyms
- (numeral): Ziffer, Zahlzeichen
Coordinate terms
Derived terms
- Normalnull
- Nullergebnis
- Nullkommanichts
- Nullleiter
- Nulllösung
- Nullpunkt
- Nullspiel
- Nullsummenspiel
- Nulltarif
- Nullvektor
- Nullwert
- Riesennull
- rote Null
- schwarze Null
- Sportnull
Descendants
Further reading
- “Null”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache[1] (in German)
- “Null” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Null” in Duden online
Luxembourgish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nul/
- Rhymes: -ul
Noun
Null f (plural Nullen)
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